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Messages - stormtroopin'

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User Rides / Low and Slow
Drop looks good.  Imagine seeing that front end in your rear view mirror...it says "get out of my way or I'll spin you into turn 4!"
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Lounge / new workbench
Looks great!  My two benches are highly magnetized...they even attract my wife's craft junk!  Maybe I should follow your lead but paint snakes on the walls.  She'll never go in there again.
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User Rides / New build page "Project G"
I also take a million pics after getting a new camera.

Looks like a nice car!

Is that the C.R. Hawkeye Downs swap you are talking about?  I usually go with friends on Sunday even though most of the good stuff is already gone.
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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / New member
Thanks for the welcome.  I live in Winthrop.  I paid a $1000 for it, but got another dismantled 302 out of a Cougar to go with it.  Rust free cars in Iowa are rare, so am saving $ on body work.

I don't think the motor has ever been torn down.  So guessing the main parts are stock.  Other engine has heads "E6SE-AA", pistons look to be .030 over, and everything else needs a good cleaning.  Not sure if I will even use them.

O/T  Did catch my first trout using a fly rod...fly fishing is another potenially expensive hobby!!
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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / New member
I purchased a '83 Heritage last August and have been lurking in the shadows of the forum since then.  So much info here!!!

It's got less than 90k miles, leather gray interior, and almost zero rust.  The trim piece on the bottom of the window is fairly rusted.  I was told it's from a former Ford imployee in Texas.  Car sat for awhile until previous owner bought it.  He drove it on the interstate towards Iowa and overheated it within 30 miles.  The motor obviously is not running good at all and smokes like a chimney.  I knew this when I bought it from him.  It's a 302.  This site has given me alot of ideas and more questions.

Hello from Ben!!  Gone trout fishing...be back after dark!